“They never let her learn the secret handshake there.” Katie Couric’s five-year run as anchor on CBS Evening News is reportedly coming to an end. The New York Times reveals behind-the-scenes details of Couric’s tenure at the network, from her chilly reception to her persistently low visibility, plus what’s coming up next for the Emmy-award winner.

This just in: Politico reports that Pelosi is OVER. She wasn’t involved in the last-minute budget kerfuffle because she was giving a speech at Tufts instead, and just like that, she went from “hot” to “not.” Irin Carmon does some counter-analysis at Jezebel: “Apparently, in Washington, sharing the spotlight and applying your resources where they’ll be most effective is also a sign of weakness.”

The supposedly anachronistic Congresswoman, apparently desperate to regain some sort of relevance in the House, also challenged Republicans who are hell-bent on defunding Planned Parenthood in a speech on the House floor Friday. She took a firm feminist stance against the cuts, saying:

The arguments with which the Republicans have put forth sound like the same questions of a decade ago. Do women think? It’s an assault on the judgment of women. It bespeaks a lack of respect for women to determine the size and the timing of their families.

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Excellent post — thanks! Looking forward to Couric's memoirs… I was glad to see that Pelosi got some good mainstream coverage for the portion of her speech on the House floor where she said (more or less): "Republicans voting for this budget should know that it ends Medicare as we know it." The billboard is so racist that I can hardly believe it's still standing.